Fast opinions come and go. Here are the slow facts.

It is long past time to end the Department of Energy. President Carter started the DOE to make the U.S. energy independent. Now it is time for them to go away.

The Energy Department is refusing a request by President-elect Donald Trump to provide him with a list of federal workers who worked on climate change programs, the Washington Times reported Tuesday.It quoted White House press secretary Josh Earnest as saying the move “could have been an attempt to target civil servants, career federal government employees.”